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ilanie-color reach the general olive of the upper parts. Or, the top of the 

 head may be described as a central bed of flame-color, bounded in front and 

 on the sides with clear yellow, tbis similarly bounded by black, this again 

 in the same manner by hoary-whitish. Suialler than E. calendula. Length, 

 4 inches ; extent, 6^-7 ; wing, 2-2^ ; tail, If. 



5 , adult; and young: Similar to the adult male, but the ceutral field of 

 the crown entirely yellow, inclosed in black (no flame-color). I have never 

 seen a rewly-fledged specimen ; but birds of the year, in the fall, always 

 show black and yellow on the head, and 1 presume this ai)pears with the 

 first feathering. 



Fig. 16. — Golden-crested Kinglet. 



Specimens vary considerably in the shade of the general coloi'ation, being 

 .sometimes quite yellowish or greenish, at other times more ashy above, 

 except on the rump, and nearly white below. Nor is this a matter of age 

 or season, for it is shown by equally i^erfect spring specimens. I am 

 unable to verify a supposed more greenish hue in western specimens; in 

 point of fact, some of the richest specimens I ever saw are among those I 

 collected years ago about Washington, D. C. 



UNLIKE the Euby-crown, the Gokl-crest is far from con- 

 spicuous in the Ornis of the Colorado Basin. I find that 

 I am usually quoted as authority for its occurrence in Arizona; 

 but I expressly stated, in my paper published in 1S6G, that I 

 had myself never met with it there. 1 cannot now speak posi- 

 tively of the authority upon which 1 relied for including it 

 among the birds of that Territory, but think it was Dr. S. W. 

 Woodhouse, who speaks of it as very abundant in Texas and 

 N'ew Mexico, the latter including Arizona at the time he wrote. 

 It is given in none of the Pacific Railroad Reports, nor in the 

 Mexican Boundary Survey, nor in Ives's Colorado River Surve}'^, 



